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[1]: > You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide
by sundarurfriend 5y ago
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> You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.
> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service
The core of it (IMO, IANAL) comes down to "as necessary to provide the Service". It claims a right to "otherwise analyze it on our servers", but the clause "as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time" likely still applies to that.
So it comes down to whether Copilot still counts as part of their "Service" that the user agreed to when using the site, or if it's different enough that it's unreasonable to apply that proviso.
[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service#:~:text=4.%20License%20Grant%20to%20Us https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o... (thanks themanmaran)